Robotbeat wrote:I think the reason behind this comic could be more heavyhearted than all of you are thinking. It's a sad ending, with the male figure alone with the castle he built with the female figure; the female figure didn't say goodbye (and didn't imply she'd be coming back).

More heavyhearted? Son, were you not here four dozen pages back when somebody speculated that this comic was about a god damn miscarriage?

inhalvast wrote:For all we know, Randall has developed a time-hack which allows us to float freely throughout the -time end of the space-time continuum. It will *most likely* need a cup of tea, three ocelots, a sandcastle, and a 4G connection...

I agree that this could be way sadder than some people think. Plus people who have undergone radiation have had cancer and undergone treatment have a much harder time getting pregnant. I'm hoping for the best though.

Robotbeat wrote:I think the reason behind this comic could be more heavyhearted than all of you are thinking. It's a sad ending, with the male figure alone with the castle he built with the female figure; the female figure didn't say goodbye (and didn't imply she'd be coming back).

More heavyhearted? Son, were you not here four dozen pages back when somebody speculated that this comic was about a god damn miscarriage?

For the record, it's 2 frames away from 100 frames... A nice round number. That said this last one couldn't have taken more than 15 seconds to draw and I'm a huge fan of the idea that this will go on indefinitely.

Primis wrote:Curl doesn't like 301 redirects, so as soon as I get wget online, I'm going to do an auto-updating GIF. Should be interesting, will update when ready[EDIT] As of 5:57 I can no longer access the image, I think too many autopoolers might have killed randall's bandwidth...[EDIT] I have a working updating GIF up:The only issue now is Randall's bandwidth keeping me from downloading a new image from redirects...

Though at the same time: Dear Randall, please never stop toying with my emotions. lol

All hail the divine Lord RandallThe Author of the One True ComicThe Creator of TimeThe Illustrator of SandcastlesThe Keeper of the NewpixWe have seen the CastlesWe reject the OutsideWe watch TimeWe do not Sleep

inhalvast wrote:For all we know, Randall has developed a time-hack which allows us to float freely throughout the -time end of the space-time continuum. It will *most likely* need a cup of tea, three ocelots, a sandcastle, and a 4G connection...

That's as likely an outcome as any other I've read so far!

Now the only thing I need to do is come up with a rationalization for why it is likely...

I'll get back to you guys on this one.

Mgraba wrote:He who watches Time already waits for it.

Nerd Mike wrote:Have you ever had a perfect day and wished you could make it last forever?

Though at the same time: Dear Randall, please never stop toying with my emotions. lol

When I first learned of xkcd, I wasn't aware of the M/W/F schedule, but whenever I noticed a new entry it made me happy. Then I learned of the M/W/F schedule and I had to come to grips with only three new entries a week. But now, over the last two days I've become a downright addict. I need to go through withdrawal, I thought my supplier was about to pull the cord, but no, he just keeps slippin' me more!

New hypothesis about the reasoning behind this comic: Ensure that the individual comic thread with the most replies is no longer the result of a flame war. There are about 815 replies to go before that becomes true. Although this thread has already by far the largest number of views of any of the comic threads.

More conjecture... What is going to be left in place once this is done? Assuming that it is ever done. It would be easy to leave the server set up to continue serving the multi-day loop of 2 frames per hour video. I at first thought perhaps he would drop in an animated gif as a summary of the work, but there already is one here in the forum. The comic page would be the only place to see the original n-day video in all of its time-stretched glory.

P.S. I am Randall, but not that Randall.We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make it better than it was. Better … stronger … well, maybe not faster.Well, BlitzGirl is experiencing a bit of a title wave.